User blog comment:Bluestripe the Wild/Redwall Wars:Civilizations/@comment-1145722-20090923230509

The ferret has a variety of weapons that he has traded or stolen in his travels. Swords of all kinds, daggers, axes, spears, pikes, bows and quivers of arrows, and a few specialty weapons as well including a mace and chain and a whip.

I find him pulling his cart along a road towards a grove of trees to rest. he sits down in the shade and I go up to him. "Bon jour messeur!" I say, "Ah have seen ye before and Ah have some interest in trading wi' you."

The ferret looks up at me and says. "Is dat so? Then take a look at me cart an' pick out what ye want. But first let me see what ye've got."

I show him my only weapon: my dagger. He inspects it and says, "Tis made fairly well. I can only trade a blade for a blade though, so what do ye want?"

I have been eyeing the whip this whole time, having had one before coming under the King's services. And upon hearing his statement am disappointed. Then I remember that mouse awhile back. He made weapons. I could get some from him and then trade for the whip while still keeping my dagger. I bid the ferret farewell and say that I'll be back, then I travel back the way I came, towards the mouse's home.